source: Ronald Reagan, Fred L. Israel, United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan) (1987). “Ronald Reagan's Weekly Radio Addresses: The first term”, Scholarly Resources Inc

topic: Wise, Strong, Believe, Environmental Policy, Natural Resources

In the past we could afford a long gestation period before undertaking major environmental policy initiatives. Today the time for a well-planned transition to a sustainable system is running out. We may be moving in the right direction, but we are moving too slowly. We are failing in our responsibility to future generations and even the present one.

- Kofi Annan

source: "Annan pleads with west as environment is pushed up UN agenda" by Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2001.

topic: Running, Moving, Responsibility, Gestation, Moving In The Right Direction

Energy Policy will be and should be driven by environmental policy in the future.

- Tim Wirth

topic: Future, Environmental, Energy, Energy Policy, Environmental Policy

All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies.

- David Attenborough

topic: Years, Environmental, Policy, Environmental Policy

Forests are breaking out all over America. New England has more forests since the Civil War. In 1880, New York State was only 25 percent forested. Today it is more than 66 percent. In 1850, Vermont was only 35 percent forested. Now it's 76 percent forested and rising. In the south, more land is covered by forest than at any time in the last century. In 1936 a study found that 80 percent of piedmont Georgia was without trees. Today nearly 70 percent of the state is forested. In the last decade alone, America has added more than 10 million acres of forestland.

- Jonah Goldberg

topic: New York, War, Land, Environmental Policy, New York State

Environmental policies are not just about good publicity; they are about responding to the moral imperative to address both climate change and resource depletion...A company culture that is based on measuring everything in purely financial terms will be crippled by a high turnover of staff, customers and suppliers

- Toby Robins

topic: Business, Environmental, Culture, Company Culture, Environmental Policy

We need to make growth greener, to make our economic and environmental policies more compatible and even mutually-reinforcing. This is not just a matter of new technologies or new sources of renewable, safe energy. It is about how we all behave every day of our lives, what we eat, what we drink, what we recycle, re-use, repair, how we produce and how we consume

- Jose Angel Gurria

topic: Technology, Growth, Environmental, Environmental Policy, New Technology

The strategy behind the Kyoto Protocol has no grounding in economics or environmental policy.

- William Nordhaus

source: William D. Nordhaus, Joseph Boyer (2003). “Warming the World: Economic Models of Global Warming”, p.167, MIT Press

topic: Kyoto, Environmental, Strategy, Kyoto Protocol, Environmental Policy

We know taxes slow down economic growth, so if you add a carbon tax you have to also minus other taxes. You can't take more money out of people's pockets. I don't think you can build a consensus in this country about environmental policy if you're going to make people poor.

- Christy Clark

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Country, Thinking, People, Carbon Tax, Environmental Policy

I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes.

- Jay Inslee

topic: Real, Air, Years, Environmental Policy, Air And Water

Environmental policies are driven by a kind of emotional spiritualism that threatens the very foundation of our society. There is increasing evidence of a government-sponsored religion in America. This religion, a cloudy mixture of new-age mysticism, Native American folklore, and primitive Earth worship, is being promoted and enforced by the Clinton administration in violation of our rights and freedoms.

- Helen Chenoweth-Hage

topic: Native American, Emotional, Rights, Environmental Policy, Spiritualism

But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy...One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy any more.

- Ottmar Edenhofer

source: "IPCC Official: 'Climate Policy Is Redistributing The World's Wealth'". Interview with Bernard Potter, www.thegwpf.com. November 14, 2010.

topic: Environmental, World, Energy, Environmental Policy, Redistribution Of Wealth

We need to be rid of the insane policy of environmentalism. No more 'green', anti-growth, anti-science environmental policy.

- Kesha Rogers

topic: Growth, Environmental, Insane, Environmental Policy

We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.

- Jay Inslee

topic: Country, Earth Day, Environmental, World Earth Day, Energy Policy

What is the environmental policy of the Republican Party? When I ask that question, I get a blank stare, if I'm president of the United States, we're going to address climate change and CO2 emissions in a business-friendly way.

- Lindsey Graham

source: "Lindsey Graham: Caitlyn Jenner Is 'Welcome in My Party'". www.theatlantic.com. June 7, 2015.

topic: Change, Party, President, Co2 Emissions, Environmental Policy

First of all, developed countries have basically expropriated the atmosphere of the world community. But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy. Obviously, the owners of coal and oil will not be enthusiastic about this. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore...

- Ottmar Edenhofer

source: "UN IPCC Official Admits 'We Redistribute World's Wealth By Climate Policy' 15 Shares". www.newsbusters.org. November 18, 2010.

topic: Country, Oil, Community, Developed Country, Environmental Justice

I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn't do anything academically around the arts.

- Aisha Tyler

topic: Art, Government, Environmental, Dartmouth, Environmental Policy

We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect us. The health care community must become a powerful political lobby for environmental policy and legislation.

- Andrew Weil

source: "The Question No One Asks About Healthcare" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2009.

topic: Powerful, People, Sick, Environmental Policy

...Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public.

- Nicholas D. Kristof

topic: Track, Environmental, Records, Alarmists, Environmental Policy

If the U.S. wants to help people in tsunami-hit countries like Sri Lanka and Indonesia - not to mention other poor countries in Africa - there's one step that would cost us nothing and would save hundreds of thousands of lives. It would be to allow DDT in malaria-ravaged countries.

- Nicholas D. Kristof

topic: Country, Sri Lanka, Ddt, Environmental Policy

Over the next ten years, I predict, the mainstream of the environmental movement will reverse its opinion and activism in four major areas: population growth, urbaninzation, genetically engineered organisms, and nuclear power.

- Stewart Brand

topic: Years, Growth, Environmental, Population Growth, Environmental Policy

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